No matter whom you talk to or no matter whom you ask – the one answer that everyone gives when asked what fastpitch softball has offered them is: the great people you meet.
Russ Snow is one of those great people in my fastpitch life. I first met Russ a long time ago at an ISC World Tournament somewhere. Being the publisher of the Fastpitch Chronicle newspaper afforded me an opportunity to meet thousands and thousands of great people. Russ is among the greatest. Tonight Russ is certainly in my thoughts.
At the NAFA Master’s Eastern Nationals Russ and I were able to connect again. He filled me in on his coaching experiences with the Great Britainprogram and we talked about each other’s lives since we’d last seen each other.
I left Rockford, Illinois on the final day of that NAFA event with a renewed passion for people in the men’s game. I’d lost a lot of something over the past couple of years. My main purpose for going to Rockford wasn’t to actually play as much as it was to see great friends I hadn’t seen in several years.
Today I received a message from Russ (actually from Cindy). Russ’ ranch out there in California is right smack in the middle of one of those raging wild fires that torched the hillsides.
I’ve posted the message from Cindy on my Fastpitch Chronicle website. If you’d like to read it just go to http://www.fastpitchchronicle.com and click your way to the mens’ news page and read it.
If you know Russ and didn’t get the message, you now know he was and is right in the middle of things out there.
